Evil Fast Food!!

I dare everyone here to look up the breakfasts, lunches, dinners and desserts for McDonalds, Burger King, Quizznos, Pizza Hut, and even Subway!!!!!! You will be soooooooooooo suppriesed what you are REALLY eating! McDonalds uses fish for the chicken nuggets, Pizza Hut uses fake dairy cheese on certain pizzas, Burger King has some kind of weird chemicals in their ice'ees (sorry dont know how to spell) and Quiznos just tries to pass off as healthy when its just as bad as the fast foods I named above!!!!! Why cant there be a fast food places like drive-by's and such that serves food for dieters and health nuts!!!!!!

I concurr! wouldn't it be nice if we could swing by at 2am and pick up an order of rice cakes...LOL
I hear you! and even the food they do serve that's supposed to be healthy is wilted and brown lettuce.
I guess healthy food isn't meant to be fast food.

Where were you able to find any Quiznos calorie information? I have looked all over the internet and back for Quizno's calorie breakdowns and all I came up with was the listings for three items of their over 50 item menue and their austrailian site that has a totally different menue. I've asked for a calorie chart while in the store too and nobody has them D:

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can you please give me the link!? I would be forever thankful :-)

It took me forever to find info to! but i finly found some at


they have some listed on the site, but the only reson they wont say it on quiznos.com is because thats were most people will go to look for it. They are pretty high calorie and I found out they use a TON of perservatives from my friend whos brother works there.

Sorry my last post the link didnt com threw.

http://www.dietfacts.com/search.asp?searchKey =quiznos

These are all just taken directly from the australian website I mentioned before. The menue is very different from the United States menue.

Oh really? Why is there different menues it makes everything SO CONFUSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well i did find this if its helpfull, but you probably have already seen it if you looked on the Quiznos site.

http://www.dietfacts.com/list.asp?brand=quizn o_s_subs

hope it helps.... somewhat...

or you could just look up all the things that are inside a quizons sandwich on this site and calculate it! thats what i have done with subway sandwiches!

you know what fast food place i have found is the best for you.... Chick-fil-a. Its sooooo good and everything is pretty good for you. I find it one of the best fast food places ever!

Subway is the one place I let myself buy from, I just avoid their "roasted chicken breast" and even the vegetable patties aren't better for you than simple turkey breast slices. The sodium is pretty outrageous, but it's hard to beat 280 calories for a 6" sub loaded down with veggies, or 230 calories if you skip the meat. I get wheat bread and skip the cheese and mayo, and usually take it home and add my own extra virgin olive oil and red wine vinegar so I know exactly how much is getting put on.

I've been having trouble finding a side that isn't chips or fries or cookies. I made a vow to myself to have no chips or fries, of any kind, for a full year. There really isn't all that much out there that's actually good for you. The BK low-carb grilled chicken thing is about 420 calories, which isn't too bad, but I don't like most fast food chicken breasts, except at wendys- they actually use whole meat. BK, Hardee's and some other places use processed meat, chicken thats been diced up with stuff added and reshaped to look like chicken breast fillets, but they aren't natural. The wendy's taco salad, sans chips, is actually really good.

I've finally gotten to the point where if I know I don't want to even think about how much fat or calories are in a particular item I want to order, i don't order it. Though it's painful to pass up that cheesecake sometimes.

Here's another thing you may not know...McDonald's milkshakes are made with plastic...ever wonder why they never really melt??? YUK. I can't even make myself look at them let alone eat them. =(

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/mcdshake.h tm

that's been proven false, apparently.


This is a good link too

http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/badmeat.as p

When someone tells you there's plastic or eyeballs or something in your food, take a moment to go "wait, can that actually be right?" and google it, or do some research. The FDA system is far from perfect, but there are some things that can't be used as ingredients, and they do require restauraunts to lis ALL ingredients - the Mc'D's shakes do not list plastic as an ingredient.

The "Roasted Chicken Breast" have less sodium (830mg) than the Turkey (1000)..

After the Veggie, i think the Roasted Chicken Breast is the second healthiest sub in subway.. And its probably the tastier... The one u should avoid is the TUNA one with its 31g of fat.

Where I live (near London) there's quite a good selection of decent sandwich shops, independent snack bars, cafes and places like Pret A Manger that don't do a bad line in takeaway salads, sushi and hot soups.   There's a chain called 'Spud-u-like' that does jacket potatoes with toppings but they're few and far between with <50 outlets nationally.

I think the reality is that if a 'MacHealthy' franchise opened it would die on it's lentil-packed rear end because it's not what the vast majority of people either want or expect from their fast food.  People who genuinely care about their health aren't their target market, let's face it.   I've never seen the stats but I wonder what percentage of their sales the salad option accounts for in a typical burger joint?  And how many children choose the apple slices over the fries? I'm guessing a lot less than 5%

i'll rarely used to eat fastfood, even when i was obese; i just never liked most of it, except for chicken mcnuggets and dairyqueen blizzards/mcflurries.

but now, thanks to learning about health, looking up this info and watching "supersize me" i never eat any of that stuff anymore. and when i do eat out, it's subway and i will not eat their meat or cheese, i either get a veggie sub with no dressing or a veggie wrap wth no dressing.

i miss chicken nuggets, and blizzards have to be my favorite food, but the fat, calories, sugar, preservatives, and whatever else they've added is just not worth it. plus, when i get a blizzard i can't get a small to satisfy my craving, it has to be a HUGE blizzard. :\

Original Post by gi-jane:

 And how many children choose the apple slices over the fries? I'm guessing a lot less than 5%

 In a perfect world, the parents would usually choose for the child and go for the healthy alternative.  But seeing how big the problem of child obesity has become, we know we're not in a perfect world!